Rankings and Recognition

	U.S. News & World Report’s 2010 Annual Guide to America’s Best Colleges has named NJIT among the nation’s top tier of national research universities offering a range of undergraduate majors and master's and doctoral degrees.  NJIT is now ranked 115 among the nation’s best national universities.  Every year for the past five years, NJIT has increased its ranking on this widely-read assessment of the nation’s colleges and universities.
	NJIT is one of the country's best institutions for undergraduate education, according to The Princeton Review. The education services company featured the school in the 2010 edition of its popular guidebook: The Best 371 Colleges.
	The Princeton Review named NJIT among the nation’s top 50 public undergraduate institutions for value for 2009.  NJIT was included in the select listing because it has long been known for affordability nationally and in the region.
	US News & World Report’s 2009 Annual Guide to America’s Best Colleges today named New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) among the nation’s top tier of national research universities offering a range of undergraduate majors and master's and doctoral degrees.

NJIT ranks among "Top American Research Universities" in an annual study by The Center for Measuring University Performance. With growth of 89.7 percent in the last decade, the university's research program is among the 25 fastest-growing research programs in the nation.

NJIT has been designated a Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education by the National Security Agency.

NJIT was named the first recipient of the Excellence in Technology Education Award presented by New Jersey Technology Council (NJTC). NJTC annually recognizes outstanding technology companies and individuals who contribute to “growth, achievement and excellence in diverse technology sectors of New Jersey.”

In the “TOP 100 UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE PRODUCERS 2007” survey by Diverse Issues in Higher Education, NJIT ranked:

• 28th in the United States in graduating minority students with bachelor's degrees in engineering.
• 12th in the nation, 1st in New Jersey in graduating minority students in with baccalaureate degrees computer and information sciences.
• 18th in the nation, 1st in New Jersey in awarding bachelor’s degrees in engineering to African-American students.
• 26th in the United States, 1st in New Jersey in graduating Hispanic students with undergraduate degrees in engineering.
• 25th in the nation, 1st in New Jersey in graduating Hispanic students with bachelor’s degrees in computer and information sciences.
• 38th in the United States for graduating Asian-American students with baccalaureates in engineering degrees.
• 7th in the United States and 1st in New Jersey in graduating Asian American students with baccalaureate degrees in computers and information science.

NJIT also ranked 1st in the nation in awarding master’s degrees in computing sciences to Asian-American students and 9th in the nation for awarding master’s degrees in engineering to African American students.

NJIT was named among the top 500 world universities in a study by the Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Institutions were judged on quality of education, quality of faculty, research output and size; only 170 US institutions were ranked in the top 500.

Award-Winning Faculty

Four NJIT faculty members have received Fulbright awards:

Ali Abdi, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, received the 2008 New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame Innovators Award. He discovered new communication channels in underwater environments and invented a technique to communicate data through these channels.  His research will eventually allow underwater vehicles to communicate information and data faster in complex underwater environments. The National Science Foundation also supports his research.

Tara Alvarez, an associate professor of biomedical engineering whose neuroscience research will help stroke victims and also lead to the diagnosis of visual diseases, received a National Science Foundation Career Award. The award supports her neuroscience and vision research.

Nirwan Ansari, a professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering, was named a Fellow by The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for his contributions to broadband networks and communications.

Treena Livingston Arinzeh, PhD, associate professor of biomedical engineering, NSF Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

Yeheskel Bar-Ness, distinguished professor of electrical and computer engineering, was selected for the 2008 Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award in the University Technology Transfer category by the R&D Council of New Jersey’s Awards Committee.

Timothy Chang, professor of electrical and computer engineering, received a National Science Foundation Grant Award to Develop a Gene Library-Based Resource Allocation Method.

Richard Foulds, associate professor in the biomedical engineering department, received a $4.75 million grant from the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research. The grant supports NJIT’s Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center, which invents technology to help patients recovering from brain and spinal cord injuries and conditions.  

Christopher Funkhouser, associate professor of humanities will use his Fulbright Scholarship to study digital literature at Multimedia University in Cyberjaya, Malaysia, a cutting edge, technological university.

Nancy Jackson, professor of geography was awarded the Turin Chair as part of the Fulbright Distinguished Chairs Program. She conducted research on coastal and ecosystem management and lectured on International Environmental Policy at the Polytechnic Institute of Turin, Italy during the 2004-2005 academic year.

Lou Kondic, associate professor of mathematical sciences, was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to support his research on “Dynamics of Non-Newtonian Liquid Films involving Contact Lines.” He will visit several research locations in Argentina.

Zeynep Celik, PhD, professor of architecture, Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship.

Costas G. Gogos, research distinguished professor of chemical engineering, received the Annual International Award from the Society of Plastics Engineers. The honor, the highest accorded by SPE, recognizes a lifetime of accomplishment in polymer processing

Louis Lanzerotti, PhD, distinguished research professor at NJIT’s Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research,  the William Nordberg Medal in Space Science by the Committee on Space Research.

Neil Maher, PhD, assistant professor of history, the 2004-5 Verville Fellowship by the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. 

Bryan Pfister, a specialist in neural tissue engineering, has been awarded a Faculty Early Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation. Pfister, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering, received the award to support his research into rapid axon stretch growth, a technique for regenerating damaged or diseased nerve cells.

Ronald H. Rockland, PhD, associate professor of electrical engineering technology and associate dean of the Newark College of Engineering,  the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Frederick J. Berger Award.

Dale Gary, professor of physics, was awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to continue his research to develop a global network of 100 radio telescopes; such telescopes are used to study radio waves from the sun. The NSF awarded Gary $400,000 for this project in 2002.